"Why won't you ever

 

let people into your

 

heart?"

 

That was the question

 

many people had asked

 

Jung Soojung. Why?

 

Why was she so cold

 

hearted? So...distant.

 

Many people had tried

 

to get her to open up

 

her heart. Not one of 

 

them was successful.

 

Not even her friends

 

came close. She had

 

friends. But they were

 

not so close that Soojung

 

would actually tell them

 

her problems. Eventually,

 

majority of those people

 

gave up. They ended up

 

labelling her as a "distant

 

girl with a heart of stone".

 

They eventually stopped

 

trying to talk to her. Pretty

 

soon, she only had one

 

friend left. Jung Soojung

 

did not mind though, she

 

had been through worse.

 

This? This was nothing.

 

----

 

"Why won't you ever

 

date other people

 

again?"

 

That was the question 

 

many people had asked

 

Kim Jongin. Girls had

 

tried to flirt with him.

 

Be it cute, y, flirty,

 

nerdy. None of them

 

succeeded. His friends

 

tried to get him to date.

 

His parents were worried.

 

But Kim Jongin didn't care.

 

No matter what people

 

told him, he wasn't

 

going to listen. What did

 

they know?

 

-----

 

Jung Soojung would never

 

forget that day. It was 

 

supposedly a normal day.

 

She got home, and saw 

 

that her normally loving

 

and sweet parents were

 

quarelling. Soojung

 

shrugged it off. Couples

 

quarelled at times too.

 

However, she knew that

 

something was very wrong

 

when her father shouted.

 

He would rarely shout.

 

He was so gentle and soft-

 

spoken, should he ever

 

lose his temper, he would

 

do it softly. Not once did

 

he raise his voice to his

 

children, nor had Soojung

 

seen him do so to his wife.

 

She crept out of her room,

 

and hid behind the stair

 

railings.

 

"How could you, Minjung?"

 

She heard him yell.

 

"Honey, please don't

 

raise your voice. The children

 

might hear." Minjung 

 

pleaded.

 

"Don't you call me that."

 

Anger was evident in

 

his strained voice, which

 

made it clear that he was

 

gritting his teeth to prevent

him from shouting.

 

How could mom do what?

 

Soojung thought to herself.

 

Surely it couldn't be that

 

bad... Oh if only she knew.

 

She assured herself that

 

whatever the problem

 

was, it would be solved

 

the next day. She was

 

prepared to go back to

 

her room that she

 

shared with her siblings,

 

when she heard her mother

 

say,

 

"I'm sorry for cheating.

 

I didn't mean to."

 

Soojung gasped and

 

covered to

 

prevent them from

 

realising that she

 

had been eavsdropping.

 

It was too late. Her

 

mother had looked

 

up and asked her

 

to come down, 

 

tears b

 

her eyes.

 

"Oh, baby, I'm so sorry.

 

You know I love you

 

and your dad very

 

much right?" She

 

made an attempt to

 

hug her crying daughter.

 

Soojung backed away.

 

"Then why did you

 

cheat?"

 

"Baby, you don't

 

understand."

 

"If you loved us, then

 

you wouldn't have

 

cheated."

 

Wiping her tears,

 

Soojung ran up to

 

her room, where her

 

oblivious brother and

 

sister were sleeping.

 

She must have cried 

 

herself to sleep

 

because the next thing

 

she remembered was

 

waking up to find that

 

her mother was gone

 

and that she and her

 

husband were going

 

to file for a divorce.

 

Soojung's siblings,

 

being only 7 and 3

 

years old, were not

 

told about the cheating.

 

At 10, Soojung 

 

understood her father's

 

decision and kept

 

shut. Her father eventually

 

fell into depression and

 

they all suffered. Because

 

of this, 10 years old Jung

 

Soojung made the 

 

decision that the people

 

you love, are only

 

going to betray you.

 

-----

 

Kim Jongin absentmindedly

 

played with a silver 

 

bracelet with an engravement.

 

"J.N" was carved .

 

He was going to wait

 

for her. She didn't mean

 

all the things she said.

 

Nevertheless, he

 

heart ached whenever

 

he thought about that

 

day.

 

Kim Jongin smiled at

 

the bracelet in his

 

hands. He was going

 

to give it to the one

 

he loved. He looked

 

around, trying to find

 

her. He spotted her

 

signature half up-

 

half down hairstyle

 

and walked over to

 

her, unsuspecting 

 

of what was soon to

 

happen. 

 

His girlfriend of 3 years

 

was walking towards 

 

him, an awkward smile

 

planted on her delicate

 

face. Jongin was too

 

excited to notice that

 

there was something

 

different about her.

 

He tried to kiss her,

 

but she backed away.

 

It was then that he realised.

 

"What's wrong?"

 

She shook her head, hesitant

 

to tell. He smiled at

 

her and showed her the

 

bracelet that had his

 

and her initial engraved

 

on it.

 

"Jongin, I can't accept

 

this, I'm sorry."

 

Shocked and disappointed,

 

Jongin asked her why.

 

"I'm leaving."

 

"What?"

 

"I said I'm leaving."

 

"Where?"

 

"England."

 

"W-What about us?"

 

Jongin's voice cracked.

 

"Honestly, I don't have

 

feelings for you anymore.

 

I tried to tell you many

 

times, but you would

 

change the subject."

 

"You're breaking up

 

with me?"

 

"Yes I am. I'm sorry

 

Jongin. I meant to

 

tell you sooner. I

 

really did. I have to

 

go now. I have a flight

 

to catch."

 

With that, she just

 

left like that. Without

 

looking back. Without

 

seeing her ex's heartbroken

 

face. Tears were welling

 

up in his eyes as the

 

situation dawned on him.

 

She just broke up

 

with him. The pain

 

he felt undescribable.

 

It was like being shot

 

in the heart, but that

 

was an understatement.

 

Since then, Kim Jongin

 

vowed never to date

 

anyone again, lest his

 

ex comes back. The 

 

only person he was

 

ever going to be with

 

was her. No one else.

 

------

 

That was their story.

 

A story that no one

 

else seemed to know.

 

The stories that would

 

haunt them forever.

 

The stories that caused

 

them pain.

 

The story that built

 

an iron wall around

 

Jung Soojung's heart

 

and froze it.

 

The story that crushed

 

Kim Jongin's heart

 

and broke it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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